Inspired by the real-life relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and his charismatic university tutor Joseph Bell, Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes dramatises the serial killer hunt that inspired the creation of the world’s most famous detective.

Ian Richardson, Charles Dance (The Jewel in the Crown) and Robin Laing star in this fascinating two-part biographical thriller about Joseph Bell, the eccentric pioneer pathologist, whose fictionalized alter ego became prototype for a century’s obsession with crime and its detection. A four part series then followed the original two part serial later in the year.

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Ian Richardson as Doctor Joseph Bell
Robin Laing as Arthur Conan Doyle (episodes 1-2)
Charles Edwards as Arthur Conan Doyle (episodes 3-6)
Dolly Wells as Elspeth (first two part serial)
Charles Dance as Sir Henry Carlyle (first two part serial)
Ralph Riach as The Strand Editor (first two part serial)
Aly Bain as The Fiddler (first two part serial)
Alan Sinclair as Medical Lecturer (first two part serial)
Alec Newman as Neill (first two part serial)
Andrew John Tait as Stark (first two part serial)
Tamsin Pike as Sophia (first two part serial)
Joel Strachan as Crawford (first two part serial)
David MacDowell as Baxter (first two part serial)
Sarah Collier as Mary Doyle (first two part serial)
John Bett as Charles Doyle (first two part serial)
Matthew Macfadyen as Waller (first two part serial)
Simon Chandler as Inspector Warner

Liberty Crossing (go90 2018, Ashley Argota, Adam Faison)

In espionage tinged sitcom Liberty Crossing, a somewhat hopeless young intelligence analyst at the National Counterterrorism Center must untangle a terror plot whilst finding his feet amongst the office’s petty backstabbing and bureaucracy – while also dealing with his interfering family.

Absentia (AXN 2017, Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger)

Thriller series Absentia is about FBI agent Emily Byrne (Stana Katic) who, while hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers, disappears without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, she is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive and with no memory of the years she was missing. Returning home to learn her husband has remarried and her son is being raised by another woman, she soon finds herself implicated in a new series of murders.

Arctic Air (CBC 2012, Adam Beach, Pascale Hutton)

Canadian TV show Arctic Air is a one-hour adventure series set in the booming Arctic, about a maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. On the ground, Bobby, the headstrong business partner, struggles to save the airline from crashing financially while Mel, the cantankerous co-owner, keeps his crew of pilots in the air. Caught in the crossfire is Mel’s hotshot pilot daughter Krista.

As the series progresses the character-based drama will deliver hard-hitting emotional stories – from the romantic entanglement of Bobby and Krista, to the conflicts that spark between Bobby and his competitors, his business partners and even his extended family. There’s a new gold rush heating up under the permafrost, and there are new fortunes of diamonds and oil to claim.